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[characters are fooling around a logo that says "THE SMUGS"]

2025 PATCH NOTES

Changes:

• Removed slider limits on "Ego"
• Removed "Shame" trait from all public figures
• Updated career "Politician" to now require zero experience
• Smugs with the career path "Journalist" are now flagged as enemies
• Intelligence briefings can now be skipped
• New romance interaction: "Pay Off Affair"
• "Spray Tan" slider can now go above 100%, up to 200%
• Gold furniture now triggers environment penalties for tasteful Smugs

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a major bug where facts used to affect Smugs
• Fixed an issue where losing was treated as an ending
• Fixed exploit where classified documents could be stored in pool houses
• Dealt with recurring error where Smugs thought satire was endorsement (hopefully this time it will actually work?)

Known issues:

• The phrase "I take responsibility" is inaudible to other Smugs in all modes
• Smugs ask "Why is this happening?" after school shootings but do nothing
• In multiplayer, one player can control all three branches of government
• Loop in which Smugs deny climate change while being evacuated from floods
• It is possible to "Try For Baby" with a flag
• Smugs might high five lobbyists and PR execs after public tragedies
• Secret service Smugs sometimes just stop trying
• Graphical issue might cause empathy to fail to render
• Global economy rebalance might heavily affect your Smug

[a character with a floating cristal above its head speaks] On behalf of Smug Entertainment Inc. I would like to thank you for playing The Smugz and hope you are hyped for our upcoming european DLCs in 2026 and 2027

https://thebad.website/comic/2025_patch_notes

[blue, holding a headset that's playing music] I can't wait to listen to my favorite song, the 1940 recording of "SS Military March", it's an all time classic!

[green, shocked at blue] Uhm, dude... Are you listening to nazi music?

[blue, still holding the headset, while the notes coming out of it turn into swastikas] What? Why would you say that? Is this yet another woke attempt at cancelling everything I like based on unfounded allegations?

https://thebad.website/comic/favorite_song

[orange] Okay sure, we did massacre the economy and make ourselves look untrustworthy and unstable, but...

[zoom on orange grinning] We can now say slurs at work without facing consequences

[newspaper clipping] Corporate America embraces a new era of conservatism under Donald Trump. Bankers and financiers say that Trump’s victory has empowered those who felt they had to self-censor or change their language to avoid offending younger colleagues, women, minorities or disabled people. “I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say [r-slur] and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.”

[orange, celebrating] Worth it! I see this as an absolute win!

https://thebad.website/comic/legalized_slurs

[orange] Okay sure, we did massacre the economy and make ourselves look untrustworthy and unstable, but...

[zoom on orange grinning] We can now say slurs at work without facing consequences

[newspaper clipping] Corporate America embraces a new era of conservatism under Donald Trump. Bankers and financiers say that Trump’s victory has empowered those who felt they had to self-censor or change their language to avoid offending younger colleagues, women, minorities or disabled people. “I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say [r-slur] and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.”

[orange, celebrating] Worth it! I see this as an absolute win!

https://thebad.website/comic/legalized_slurs

[holding a rose] Now hear me out... Sure, we did let them bring back slavery

[looking smug] But we negotiated that you can have longer and more comfortable chains this time around

[dropped the rose, still looking smug] We truly are defenders of the people

https://thebad.website/comic/moderate_left

[holding a rose] Now hear me out... Sure, we did let them bring back slavery

[looking smug] But we negotiated that you can have longer and more comfortable chains this time around

[dropped the rose, still looking smug] We truly are defenders of the people

https://thebad.website/comic/moderate_left

[unhappy orange character] Life was so much better back in the day...

BACK IN THE DAY

[orange character smirks while their slave toils away] What injustices? Everybody's happy here

https://thebad.website/comic/nostalgia

[unhappy orange character] Life was so much better back in the day...

BACK IN THE DAY

[orange character smirks while their slave toils away] What injustices? Everybody's happy here

https://thebad.website/comic/nostalgia

A man whispers into another man's ear, reminiscent of the famous George W Bush image

MISTER PRESIDENT... A SECOND TRUMP MANDATE HAS HIT THE ECONOMY

A smiling orange plane with a red hat flies towards two towers. The left tower is destroyed, the word COVID on it. A second tower stands, with the word NASDAQ on it, and seems to be frowning. A confused building stares from below.

https://thebad.website/comic/this_time_its_personal_finance

Based on r/coaxedintoasnafu on Reddit, which has become a shadow of its former self so maybe here it could amount to something better who knows

Based on r/smugideologyman on Reddit, with the blessing of the Reddit community's mods.

[Reddit alien] Hi, it's me, social media. My platform's entire value relies on its users wanting to contribute to it

[Reddit alien, smirking] Hmmm.... How about I piss off my entire userbase

[Reddit alien, sad] Huh my platform is losing value... I don't understand how this is possible

https://thebad.website/comic/short_sighted_social_media